"We warned the president -- don't ever, ever agree with the Republicans,"

[stockholmer]

58. I am not singling out Democrats, just pointing out both sides dance to the oligarch's tune, albeit

in different rhythms and to different degrees. I think the best Democrat the US has in the Congress is Bernie Sanders, he is a national treasure, but all too often thwarted by a corporate controlled group consensus. I would say there are several dozen other Dems who tend to somewhat (to varying degrees) vote in the average citizen's interest the majority of the time, but their numbers just are not there to affect a rollback of the fascism. Thus is the trap of a sham 2-party system.

Other than Walter Jones and Ron Paul's (and I disagree with both of them on almost every other thing) stances on the empiric wars (and even there both Jones and Paul STILL voted for the Authorization of Force Afghan bill in 2001, which is the fountainhead of tyranny that Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, etc etc all flow from) there are NO Republicans I would ever support on 98% of the issues.

As for devastation, as long as the profit motive is left in place for health care and education, you will have massive price inflation. When that becomes unsustainable, the devastation will most assuredly occur.

Single payer health care (with profit motive utterly stripped out), universal free college tuition, nationalising the Fed, and an end to the wars of empire (along with other reforms of lesser extent) are the only way to save the American ship.